"Owlglass, n." - Word of the Day from the OED

[Madeleine Maudlin]

Yes!

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> You don't, by any chance, happen to be wearing a pink carnation in the the
> lapel of your spandex outfit?
>
>
> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Madeleine Maudlin <
> madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> People might not know this?  Dave M. links what I'm thinking about.
>>  Within a couple hours.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> .
>>> >> http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/135502
>>> >
>>> > Rachel Owlglass
>>> >
>>> > http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Rachel_Owlglass
>>>
>>> On Monday, Nige devoted a post to the 101st birthday of Gypsy Rose Lee
>>> and used another word new to me – espieglerie. As he puts it: “What
>>> charm, what finesse, what espieglerie - what a dame!”
>>>
>>> The OED gives us “Frolicsomeness, roguishness,” and cites an 1816
>>> usage by Sir Walter Scott: “A pretty young woman with an air of
>>> espieglerie which became her very well.” The other usage dates from
>>> 1852, when Francis Edward Smedley writes: “Which act of
>>> un-English-woman-like espiéglerie must be set down to the score of a
>>> foreign education.” Both refer to women, the first with approval, the
>>> second with xenophobic distaste.
>>>
>>> The root is French, espiéglerie: “mischievousness, impishness,
>>> roguishness; piece of mischief, prank.” But the French is borrowed
>>> from the name of the trickster figure in German folklore, Till
>>> Eulenspiegel, the source of Strauss’ tone poem. In Ben Jonson’s The
>>> Alchemist (1610), Till makes his first appearance in English
>>> literature as “Howelglas” – that is, owl glass or, roughly,
>>> Eulenspiegel.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://evidenceanecdotal.blogspot.com/2012/01/etymological-opaqueness.html
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> www.innergroovemusic.com
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://waste.org/pipermail/pynchon-l/attachments/20120530/5a4d3539/attachment.html>